Improvement in gates



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No. 49,873. Patented Sept. 12, 1865.

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SYLVANUS M. GILLETT, OE HOMER, NEW YORK.

IM PROVEMEN'T IN GATES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 49,873, dated September12, 1865.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SYLVANUS M. GILLETT, of Homer, in the countyofOortlandand State of New York, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Gates; and I do hereby declare that the followingis afull, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being bad tothe accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference markedthereon.

In the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, A Arepresent the two posts of the gate, and B represents the gate. Thisgate is made of slats put together in two series. One series lie at oneangle, the other series at another angle, as shown in the drawings, theslats of each series being secured aboutat'oot apartthe one frointheother, or any other required or desirable distance. These two series ofslats are pivoted to each other at their points of intersection, so thatthe gate may be pressed together or drawn out at pleasure. This gatedoes not necessarily open as usual with the ordinary gate, but foldsback by the pressing of the slats together. D represents a rod, whichhas permanent or stationary bearings at each end, in one of the postssaid rod being made to pass through the loops 0 e c, which loops aresecured fast to the slats of the gate, as shown. When the gate shuts oropens the relative positions of the loops change with the slats. it thelower loop remains stationary the two above it slide up upon the rodwhen the gate shuts up, and slide down upon it when the gate isextended.

1* represents a bar, which is hinged at its center or near it, and whichis pivoted to the gate at its ends. One end of this bar forms a latchand catches, when desired, in an opening in one of the gate-posts madeto receive it. The operator opens or shuts the gate by taking hold ofthis bar, either raising or lowering its center.

It will readily be seen that this gate may be used to shut up, asdescribed, or it may be made to swing upon its hinges, as is the casewith the ordinary gate.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is not the employment of slats of 'agate so arranged as to fold or close together; but

The use of the jointed bar F in combination with the slats c 0, soformed as to make a folding gate, as and for the purpose specified.

In witness that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand in thepresence of two witnesses.

SYLVANUS M. GILLETT.

Witnesses: 0

S. Z. MINER, WM. ANDREWS.

